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Protection Mechanism Failure

CVE-2025-6427

Severity High
Score 9.1/10

Summary

An attacker was able to bypass the `connect-src` directive of a Content Security Policy by manipulating subdocuments. This would have also hidden the connections from the Network tab in Devtools. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 140 and Thunderbird 140.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-693 - Protection Mechanism Failure

The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published